Ancient Greeks observed that Iberian warriors received special burial monuments in their native land and culture. For full disclosure, the ancient Greek sources (such...
Yes, according to medieval chronicles, Emperor Justinian II of Constantinople (r. 685-695, 705-711) sentenced the wife of a rebel to marry her household cook....
Pope Innocent VIII (r. 1484-1492) was Pope of the Roman Catholic Church when Jacob (or James) Sprenger and Heinrich (or Henry) Kramer began formulating...
Alexander Hamilton (c. 1755/1757-1804)
"Men, upon too many occasions, do not give their own understandings fair play; but, yielding to some untoward bias, they entangle...
This blue painting, by the American artist Henry Ossawa Tanner (1859-1937), re-creates a storied scene from the early life of Moses, the famous Hebrew...
Diogenes Laertius (3rd Century Biographer of Philosophers)
"The virtue of the happy man and a well-running life consists in this: that all actions are based...
Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
"Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."
From an interview Albert Einstein gave to The Saturday...